Chris Ellison
$999.05M
as of 07/22/24
About Chris Ellison
Chris Ellison is a veteran of the Australian mining sector, who draws his wealth from a minority stake in listed Mineral Resources.
The company mines both iron ore and a mineral called spodumene, which contains lithium.
In 2021, Mineral Resources together with U.S. lithium giant Albemarle re-opened the Wodinga mine in the Pilbara, in north-west Australia. It holds 29% of the world's spodumene.
Ellison was appointed non-executive chairman of lithium explorer Delta Lithium in September 2023, after Mineral Resources increased its stake to 23%.
Ellison grew up in a poor family in rural New Zealand where his father was a pig farmer and later worked in a quarry.
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Citizenship
AustraliaSource of wealth
MiningResidence
Perth, AustraliaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
06/26/57 (age 67)Number of children
6Self-made
self-madeChris Ellison’s fortune is worth
17K
troy ounces of gold
15K
median U.S. household
10K
median U.S. income
0.02%
U.S. credit card volume
0.004%
GDP of the United States
0.003%
United States debt
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Did you know?
Ellison bought fellow mining billionaire Angela Bennett's riverside home in 2009 for A$ 57.5 million.
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Financial assets
ASX | MIN-AU
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